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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024de-, prefix. - de- comes from Latin, and is used to form verbs and some adjectives with the following meanings:
- motion or being carried down from, away, or off:deplane (= move down or off a plane);
descend (= move or go down);
- reversing or undoing the effects of an action:deflate (= reverse the flow of air out of something);
dehumanize (= reverse the positive, humanizing effects of something);
- taking out or removal of a thing:decaffeinate (= take out the caffeine from something);
declaw (= remove the claws of an animal);
- finishing or completeness of an action:defunct (= completely non-functioning);despoil (= completely spoil).
DE, an abbreviation of:- Place NamesDelaware.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: de- prefix forming verbs and verbal derivatives - removal of or from something specified: deforest, dethrone
- reversal of something: decode, decompose, desegregate
- departure from: decamp
Etymology: from Latin, from dē (prep) from, away from, out of, etc. In compound words of Latin origin, de- also means away, away from (decease); down (degrade); reversal (detect); removal (defoliate); and is used intensively (devote) and pejoratively (detest) de (də; Fr. də;
Sp. de;
Port. di),USA pronunciation prep. - from;
of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin):Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
- Latin dē
- French, Spanish, Portuguese
- a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide);
also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit;
derange), descent (degrade;
deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound). Cf. di-2, dis- 1.
- Latin dē- or dis- dis-1
- French
- Latin dē-, prefixal use of dē (preposition) from, away from, of, out of; in some words,
- Middle English
- Delaware (approved esp. for use with zip code).
- destroyer escort.
de' (də; It. de),USA pronunciation prep. - dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei):de' Medici.
D.E., - Doctor of Engineering.
- driver education.
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